To Atheists and those holding to the theory of evolution. You have heard the age old question"What came first

Question

the Chicken or the egg?" A Christian believes that God created things, thus making a hen and a chicken and their way of reproduction via the egg. The Christian believes that that's the way things were CREATED. If you hold to the theory of evolution then one had to come first. One EVOLVING from the other. What was it, the chicken or the egg? How, why, what...chicken or egg??

Answer 1

There is nothing wrong with the concept of evolution|

God could have used a gradual process to bring about life|


What is objectionable is *atheism* masquerading as science and then being taught in our public schools|

When a scientist says that evolution is a proven fact, he is doing this|


Evolution is a theory - a good theory - but it is only a theory|

Such a scientist is being dishonest in making the claim that it is an absolute known scientific fact|


Now when they say that *natural selection* is a proven fact, then they are really off the wall|||||

Some natural selection has been observed for minor variations *within* species (micro-evolution), but never for the emergence of new species themselves (macro-evolution).

In fact natural selection for macro-evolution is a strict impossibility|


Any scientist who says that natural selection is a proven fact is either a liar or is grossly incompetent|


There is far more *agenda* and far less objectivity going on in main-stream science than people could think possible|





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Answer 2

The egg. In evolutionary theory genetic information can change from one generation to the next. These changes (which can range from virtually imperceptible to dramatic) then affect the offspring's chances of survival in the environment that it is born into.

When the very-nearly-chicken laid it's egg, that egg contained all the genetic information needed to create the chicken.

However this is very over-simplistic. Try not to think of things as chicken or not-chicken, but be open minded to the varying degrees of existence in between.

Even creationists accept that the modern chicken's make-up has been drastically affected by man's selective breeding so do you still require such a distinct difference between French-Bantam and Not-Quite-French-Bantam breeds.

Oh and remember, the chicken hasn't stopped. It's just nearly the next type of chicken. I've tried to explain this as clearly and as simply as possible. Please be open minded enough to accept it as a worthwhile answer that needs at very least your consideration.

Answer 3

so God created hen first, then chicken, then showed them what to do? how do you know this for sure?

Anyway, chicken and the egg is a false question; evolution doesn't dictate that a chicken or an egg magically popped into existence. During the loooong evolution (millions/billions of years) the ancestors of what would eventually become the chicken developed a mechanism that we call laying eggs.

Asking the question this ways shows both an enormous amount of ignorance of how science/natural selection/evolution works and an unwillingness to find an answer. But we both know you are going to select one of those 'DUHH idiots, everybody knows god did it' answers.

Answer 4

"If the egg is defined structurally as the hard shelled thing, and the chicken a feather covered animal, the answer is still simple. Evolutionary scientists believe the first hard shell egg was the amniotic egg laid around 300 million years ago, and was laid by the animal who was the link between amphibians and reptiles. One of the first dinosaurs that we know had feathers was the Archaeopteryx, and came much later. Modern birds would not arise until 150 million years ago, descending from theropod dinosaurs."

Answer 5

I have answered this question a couple of times.
well, out of the two? the egg came frist. what came before the egg was the ancester of the chicken. this ancester, through millions of years of evloution (and countless generations), evolved into almost what we know of as a chicken, who hatched the first egg of what we now know of a chicken. Obviously, this 'first egg' chick had no distinct differences from its parent chicken, with only a minute change in DNA (likely less than 0.1 of a percent).
In short, a feathered animal, thru' millions of years of evolution, evolved into very nearly what we know now as a chicken, who layed the first egg of the chicken we know today.

Answer 6

A chicken arising from an egg is not evolution. That's the natural aging process of a chicken.

Furthermore, evolution theory is not interested in the origin of life - it exists to explain how life developed. Usually it's paired up with other theories that attempt to explain the origin.

My personal opinion is the egg came first. However, the real question is - what produced the egg?

Answer 7

The egg. Whatever laid it was not a chicken.

The changes in a species that change it into another species take place slowly, over millions of years. The differences between individual animals are almost imperceptible.

Even if we could examine every single bird in the chicken's history, whatever individual animal it was that could first properly be called a "chicken" would be debatable. If we could actually draw a conclusion, then that animal's mother would not be considered a chicken. Therefore, her eggs would not be chicken eggs, but the eggs of an animal that was almost a chicken.

Answer 8

I don't know why so many people can't answer this question!!! It's just bloody obvious!
It's the egg. Here's my idea:
1. You have a form of bird that has the genes of the Chicken's predecessors, but it's not quite chicken yet.
2. Over time as this breed of bird reproduces, it's genetic code changes, gradually coming close to that of a modern day chicken.
3. Eventually we have a bird that genetically can be described as being 99.999999999999% chicken.
4. The bird lays an egg, and out pops a bird that can now be scientifically described as a chicken.

Answer 9

according to evolution the egg came first, since chickens evolved from other birds, that evolved from dinosaurs, that evolved from other creatures, up to the first creature that reproduced by laying eggs. so the first true chicken hatched from an egg produced by a bird that was nearly the same as the first true chicken, but not exactly a chicken.
on the other hand, the present version of God evolved from a simpler version, maybe the Canaanite top God "Baal".

Answer 10

You have over simplified the concept. The chicken evolved (eventually) from a single celled organism into it's present form.

This oversimlification should come as no surprise from a christian.